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Comments Off on Why Critical Thinking Skills Are Essential for Success in Life and Business

This is the first blog in a series about the seven essential skills for success in life and in this competitive business environment: The Camp BizSmart, Learn by Doing Model came from the founders’ experience developing executives at Fortune 500 companies like General Electric ( when Jack Welch was at the helm) and Texas Instruments. The unique, “Learn-Do-Coach-Act” curriculum links real world business projects to attaining valuable skills, insights and inspirations that will fuel a lifetime of achievement and success. After 12 years of teaching leading edge skills and abilities to thousands of young aspiring entrepreneurs coached by top notch Silicon Valley company executives Camp BizSmart researchers have found that […]

Camp BizSmart is honored to have New Story as a Product Innovation Partner for 2018. A special thank you to both Bret Hagler, CEO, Co-Founder and Matthew Marshall, Product and Co-Founder, for making time in their extremely busy schedule to create this business case with us for our student teams to solve. This March, 2018 New Story and Icon unveiled the first permitted home created specifically for the develop-ping world. 3D Printing technologies are set to transform global homelessness with 600-800 square foot homes that are printed in under 24 hours for $4000. in underserved communities. See the video featuring Matthew Marshall as he explains the company and the business […]

Comments Off on Taking great ideas to scale to do great things – with tenacious optimism!

Andy Kessler wrote for the Wall Street Journal the following about using scale to solve problems:” It’s time to stop doing the one-off two step and time to scale up.” So what is scale? Mr. Kessler says, “It’s the concept of taking a small idea and finding ways to implement it for thousands, or millions, or even billions. Without scale, ideas are no more than hot air. Stop doing the one-off two-step. It’s time to scale up.” Camp BizSmart students are inspired by great companies who are scaling big ideas to make big impacts. They are changing how we address big issues going forward. Now, that’s a really big deal. […]

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At Camp Bizsmart, we acquired many life skills that will carry us far … teamwork, confidence, speaking with eloquence, and thinking with an open mind, or as we now call it, “Thinking outside the box.”

Krish & Akash ChandaniCamp BizSmart Students

[Camp BizSmart students focus on] building a great team and being a worthy team member while pushing hard to invent the amazing solutions that will answer problems now and in the future.

Howard CharneySr. VP, Cisco Systems

Camp BizSmart has been inspiration and has helped me enhance my business and leadership skills through high school. After having been inspired to dream big and challenge myself at Camp BizSmart, I achieved my goal of becoming the first ever DECA California State Officer and Regional President from my high school.

Michaela KastelmanCEO, Winning Team – 2009

Camp BizSmart was a very unique experience for me. I learned the kinds of skills necessary to be successful in the business world. The best part was we got a chance to talk to real CEOs and VCs!

Chirag TopraniCamp BizSmart Student

Only an entrepreneurial approach – flexible, scrappy, collaborative, and unafraid of risk and failure will succeed in this new world. We owe it to our children to help them develop these skills and attitudes with programs like Camp BizSmart.